Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 12:21:05 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PID/UID namespaces Message-ID: <4FBA95A1.9050404@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAEXv5_igz7FLTipWeRKRM6DbTJ9-FDHZLjvhZ=929rmWNKQNww@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEXv5_igz7FLTipWeRKRM6DbTJ9-FDHZLjvhZ=929rmWNKQNww@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/21/12 6:47 AM, David Windsor wrote: > Hi, > > While doing some research on FreeBSD jails, I came across an item in the > jails' TODO: > > > - be able to have a separate PID space for it > - be able to specify a separate UID space for it > > In other projects, these goals have been accomplished using namespaces. I > tried to see if PID/UID namespaces existed in BSD and came across something > called Capsicum, a sandboxing project which does not appear to implement > outright namespaces for descriptors like PID/UID, but uses something called > a "Process Descriptor." > > Is namespacing of PIDs and UIDs an eventual goal of the jails project of > FreeBSD? "kinda" Note terribly explicitly, but somewhere in our collective subconscious.. > Thanks, > > David > > PS: Excuse my ignorance of anything related to BSD, as I come from a Linux > background. > >
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